Cathexis: Necromancer's Dagger (75 page)

Elizabeth stepped forward and raised her
chin, and her eyes narrowed as she said, “Your evil here is
through, I lead now and we will no longer move at your evil
guidance, be gone dark shade!”

RIveK smiled and raised her hand casually
and then said, “Whoever you are, you're playing in a game where you
don’t even know the rules, ah the price of ignorance,” she lamented
sarcastically, then launched a bolt of intense purple energy from
the Dark Plane.

The purple bolt crackled through the
mountain air and struck Elizabeth’s shielded body. The energy split
into a network of crackling lines, surrounding and outlining her
body in a sphere.

Elizabeth smiled and extended her hand, the
energy began to collect in the palm, where her aura flared white.
Soon all the purple energy was compacted into a small ball the size
of a marble.

The Kirnath sorceress dropped the ball to
the ground and stepped on it, crushing it to powder.

“I think I know the game,” she answered
calmly.

“Who are you?” RIveK asked, totally
puzzled.

“Elizabeth Ember Ardellen, care to try me?”
the sorceress asked, then spread her hands from where they were
clasped before her, palms inward. When the hands began to separate,
a line of aura energy expanded between them. Then as they pulled
apart each hand had a vertical sheet of energy attached. When her
hands reached their maximum spread, the sheets began elongating
toward RIveK, angling back toward a meeting at her precise
position. They started
slow
but
gained speed as they approached.

RIveK’s eyes widened in sudden fear, and she
hastily cast up a purple energy shield between her and the
approaching sheets of light. The aura power cut right through her
shield like it was paper.

With a clap of thunder the accelerating aura
extensions met where RIveK had stood moments before, and then the
aura power retracted to Elizabeth’s body.

RIveK’s eyes opened in the Dark Plane and
she screamed in fear before realizing she had escaped unscathed.
She vowed that never again would she face that Kirnath bitch only
as a projection, she would need her full powers to defeat that
sorceress. How had she made such a mistake? She didn’t know, but
now she had to get back to her body and then go back and admit her
defeat, and SCorcH’s destruction. The council would not be happy,
and RIveK wondered if she would ever have the chance to take
revenge on the Kirnath sorceress.
First,
she had to survive the meeting with the
necromantic council.

The Riond Mountain bandits stood hushed by
Elizabeth's display of magic. “She destroyed the necromancer!” a
voice called out.

Elizabeth answered the outburst, “The
necromancer was not destroyed, but I promise you this, if a
necromancer comes to this valley, they cannot hide from me. The
evil one who came today was, but a projection, her real body was
hidden somewhere else. In the
future,
I will not allow them to haunt us, and if they
come in the flesh, I will face them, you have the word of Lady
Elizabeth Ember Ardellen, Kirnath Adept,” she promised her
people.

As Elizabeth finished her promise, her
thoughts went to a far place; to the son she missed terribly
.
“Grow strong Michael, and learn well. I am preparing your army for
the day of reckoning. We will make them pay for what they have done
to our friends, our
country,
and our family. The war against our enemies
begins… now.”

* * * * *

In Cathexis Volume II, Conspirator’s Coin,
the adventure of the Ardellen family continues with the forging of
a young sorcerer, Michael Ardellen.

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